Can't Enable Disk Utility Debug Menu

Hi, all,
This is the first time I've tried to enable the debug menu in DU since installing Mavericks.
Unfortunately, it's not working. I've tried:
1) defaults write com.apple.DiskUtility DUDebugMenuEnabled 1
2) Opening com.apple.DiskUtility.plist in PL editor and, because there was no entry for it already there, I added DUDebugMenuEnabled [bool] [checked]
I quit DU and restarted each time.
Any ideas?
Thanks.

Actually I'm trying this again on another Mavericks laptop and it's not working.
I have the following, but the debug menu will not come up. I tried deleting the preference plist file.
defaults read com.apple.diskutility
    DUDebugMenuEnabled = 1;
    DUSavedDiskImageList =     (
    DUShowDetailsInFirstAid = 1;
    "NSWindow Frame /Users/kathryn/Library/Logs/DiskUtility.log" = "788 247 529 424 0 0 1440 878 ";
    "NSWindow Frame Disk Utility" = "255 174 853 648 0 0 1440 878 ";
    "NSWindow Frame Progress Panel" = "537 639 366 27 0 0 1440 878 ";
    "NSWindow Frame Progress Panel Frame" = "537 639 383 24 0 0 1440 878 ";

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